PrincePhilip was the first President of the World Wildlife Fund - UK (WWF) from its formation in 1961 to 1982, and International President of WWF (later the World Wide Fund for Nature) from 1981 to 1996.

The fact remains just the same that Philip depends for all he is and all he has on the say-so of his late father- in- law, King George VI and after him his wife Queen Elizabeth II and her advisers.

Philip was part of this unsettling family experience at the age of 18 months.

Prince Edward at least had the courage to face up to Philip and resign from the Marines for the sake of a theatrical career, but his choice was hardly welcome to an aggressively macho father, who is still able to make Charles, soon to be fifty, burst into tears with the lash of his tongue.

During Philip's expedition against Byzantium in 340, Alexander, then sixteen years old was left in Macedonia in the charge of the royal seal; at that time, he was anything but idle: he managed to subjugate the rebellious Maedi, a Thracian tribe.

Philip's last wife, Cleopatra, had borne a daughter a few days before his assassination, while Attalus, her uncle and guardian, had been sent on ahead to Asia to share the command of the forces with Parmenion.

A possible rival for the throne remained Attalus himself; the uncle of Cleopatra (Philip's last wife) was disaffected because of her murder and that of her daughter, but he had no claim to the throne of Macedonia; indeed, he was loyal to Philip and hostile to his assassin.

When PrincePhilip unveiled a plaque declaring Arsenal's new stadium open, onlookers might have been forgiven for feeling a little confused - as the inscription declared it was the Queen, not her husband, who had done the honours.

PrincePhilip quickly consoled those disappointed by his wife's no-show on Thursday, however, by assuring dignitaries that in him they were getting "second to her the most experienced plaque unveiler".

PrincePhilip, 85, seemed happy to step in at the last moment for his wife as he chatted to the team's captain Thierry Henry and met newcomer Theo Walcott at the £390-million Emirates Stadium in Islington, North London.

PrincePhilip has offered an unexpected insight into his private life, personally altering an author's manuscript in which it was claimed he sleeps in a separate bed to his wife of almost 60 years, the Queen.

Speculation about the Queen and PrincePhilip's sleeping arrangements hit new heights in 1982 when Buckingham Palace intruder Michael Fagan revealed how he'd infiltrated royal security and gained entry to the monarch's bedroom whilst she was still in bed.

In an age in which the media appear to (almost) see-all and hear-all, the ever pragmatic PrincePhilip is clearly aware that, in some instances at least, there's only one way to combat the gossip and that's to face it head on.

EIR first documented the role of PrincePhilip as the ``new Hitler'' in ``The Coming Fall of the House of Windsor,'' on Oct. 28, 1994.

PrincePhilip's principal collaborators in launching the WWF as a funding and worldwide operations arm of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, were Sir Julian Huxley and Max Nicholson, both ardent advocates of eugenics and racial purification.

Huxley, PrincePhilip, and the others, however, understood that, in their way of thinking, the two terms were interchangeable.

One picture from 1937 shows PrincePhilip aged 16 with relatives at his sister Cecile’s funeral in dressed in SS and Brownshirt uniforms.

Philip said that he was never ‘conscious of anybody in the family actually expressing anti-Semitic views,’ but acknowledged that that there were ‘inhibitions about the Jews’ and ‘jealousy of their success.’

Philip fought for the Allies in WWII and married the young princess Elizabeth in 1947.

This, I presume, is the reason why PrincePhilip is not wet like so many of his fellow royals, nor as lefty as even his own son, Prince Charles.

Philip is currently getting a going over by the intrusive British media following a biography of Queen Elizabeth by Sarah Bradford that alleges he not only cheats on his wife, he is also a difficult husband who shouts at the Queen.

The Queen has been madly in love with Philip since she was 13, and although in the book he is alleged to have berated her once and called her stupid -- for ordering some work in the park at Windsor -- even there I have my doubts.

PrincePhilip, in his Foreward to If I Were an Animal; United Kingdom, Robin Clark Ltd., 1986.

I don't claim to have any special interest in natural history, but as a boy I was made aware of the annual fluctuations in the number of game animals and the need to adjust the ``cull'' to the size of the surplus population.

Introduction to ``The Population Factor'' section of Down to Earth by HRH PrincePhilip, Duke of Edinburgh, 1988.

The proof of this remarkable relationship is three autographed photographs which Philip has discreetly sent to the tribe, and in the letters that have flowed between his staff and old chief Jack.

Simply background divine: Prince this Philip’s amazing pose relationship between the Prince and this remote tribe is equally bizarre and stretches back to long before Vanuatu, still a member nation of the Commonwealth, shook off its joint European masters in London and Paris in 1980.

However, the tribal elder has plenty of sons — and PrincePhilip has three of his own — so there is always the possibility of a tribal gathering of royals and warriors in years to come.